Why Skills are Important?
Skill is a thing that can take you to your desired places. Whatever you want to achieve in your life, which mostly is getting an employment or establishing a successful business, is all based on skills. We see, now a days, most youth is unemployed and struggling hard for the jobs. Why do you think they don’t get the job even though they have good educational degrees? Well, there can be hundreds of reasons behind it but the main reason is ‘the lack of skills’ or the lack of experience. If those young people had enough skills, they would have gotten the job. Skill is the biggest and purest asset of a person. When you have a skill of some thing that you love to do, it’ll lead you to the main goal of your life. Skills expose your greatest self that’s hidden somewhere inside you. The more you nourish your skills, the more your doubts and fears decrease.
Why the Youth lack Skills?
The young people, these days, are trying to gain as much knowledge as they can. Stuffing their minds with words and not using their abilities to get the experience of the practical work of their respective fields of studies. Common reasons they give when asked why they actually don’t do the practical work of their fields are that, they don’t have resources, or they don’t have the right company to do the group work. Most importantly they think that it’s not the right time to do it yet.
Reasons are given, ignoring the fact that these challenges are the part of the skill development. These things challenge you and push you to your limits so that you could adopt more, learn more and create more. There is one more type of young people that don’t learn new skills because they are too lazy to do it. These people don’t have any idea that due to their ignorant behaviour, future could be so hard to them.
What Steps should be Taken to Promote the Skill Development in Youth?
Spreading awareness is the first step that should be taken to increase the skill development in youth, because most of the people don’t know the importance of the skills or what skills they should adopt that would help them in the near or far future. Voluntary works has to be done. Youth organisations are playing the most important role in this case.
Seminars should be held in schools, colleges and, most importantly, in universities because this is the part of students’ lives where they need this guidance the most.
Young minds should be given opportunities through different creative activities to let them discover their talents. One of the most precise and affective idea is to hold workshops for teachers and teach them how they should guide their students about this critical topic of skill development.
Skills and Earning:
People can use their abilities to earn money through freelancing during their study days(mostly in universities). Doing this will help them becoming financially independent and will give them enough work experience to get a good job. Most importantly, they learn how to deal with customers and do their businesses more affectively.
Problem these days is that students don’t know what skills they have or need to learn to do freelancing. Therefore, spreading awareness is the first thing that has to be done. Young people can do designing, writing, video editing, photography, web designing and other creative things to earn money online. Videography and photography can help in earning money not only online but also in physical world. Whatever skills people have, they just need to polish them to get on the level of earning through them.
4 Necessary skills that might help Young people in the future:
1- Communication skill:
No matter what job you’re doing, what field you’re studying in or what business you’re running, if you have good communication skills than others, you’re already one step ahead of them(even if they’re working on a higher post than you). When you have good communication skills, you attract people’s attention and your business grows. You discover new opportunities by meeting new people. You explore more minds which results new creative ideas that you can apply on your practical life to make it better. So, make good relations with others and get to know new people.
2- Digital Literacy:
Technology is ruling the world these days. Hundreds of people are being replaced every month by just one machine who can do the same work in an affective and precise way. So, in future, when there would be machines to do every work, what kind of people would get hired for the jobs? Obviously, the ones who know how to operate these machines. Youth should have(atleast) the basic knowledge of modern devices such as computers.
3- Accessing and analysing the Information:
When you work or study, you have to collect and analyse different types of information. When you know where to get all this information and how to analyse it to get the necessary and affective information, you rule your field of study/work.
One can master the skill of accessing and analysing the information by researching lots of websites that provide good information of your respective field and also by getting in consistent touch with different social media platforms.
4- Management Skill:
In our practical lives, we face a lot of situations and scenarios. Keeping a constant balance between our work, family, friends, financial issues can sometimes go messy and complicated. When you know how to manage things in a perfect way, you dodge all these problems easily. Mostly, the people who have good management skills don’t really take these all things as problems.
Thing to keep in mind here is that nobody is born with all these skills. You have to learn them. So, keep struggling, learning new skills and polishing the ones you already have.
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